The wealth gap reflects accumulated advantage of whiteness, not merely present poverty

Evidence

The wealth gap isn’t growing only because of the disproportionate percentage of black Americans in poverty. It’s growing because whiteness has consistently and continually played a serious role in wealth building. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 63

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Left-wing accounts explain the wealth gap as past discrimination plus compounding wealth — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 61; The racial wealth gap persists independent of income, savings, and education attainment — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1375; Matching income and asset characteristics halves but does not close the racial wealth gap. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 502 (+15 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Left-wing accounts explain the wealth gap as past discrimination plus compounding wealth — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 61; The racial wealth gap persists independent of income, savings, and education attainment — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1375; Matching income and asset characteristics halves but does not close the racial wealth gap. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 502 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Wealth shifts how people are perceived racially, literally whitening them #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1149